God by his Providence reſtrained their Eyes, that tho they ſaw a Man, yet they could nor diſcern who he was, We may learn from hence that the Form or Figure of Chriſt's Body after his ReſurreQion, was not changed. His Body had the ſame dimenfions, the ſame quantity, colour, and figure, and was 1n it felf a proper obje& for humane Eyes, for otherwiſe there had been no need for their Eves to be held. From hence alſo we may fearn the Influence which God hath upon all our Members and Senſes. and how much we de- pend upon God for a daily Power to exerciſe our natural Faculties, Our Lord had no mind that theſe two Diſciples ſhould at firſt diſcern who he was, that he might draw out their following Diſcourſes, and from them take occaſion to prove from Scripture the certainty of his Reſurrettion. From this Text we may gather, how hard the Lu- therans are put to it, to maintain the Real preſence of the Body of Chris, wherever the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is adminiſtred, for this they muſt maintain, That altho the Body of Chriſt after his Reſurre&ion was the ſame that was Crucified, and ſo obvious to Senſe, yet he had not only a power to make it inſenſible, and inviſible, which we grant, but that he hath alſo a power to multiply it, and make it in one and the ſame inſtant, to be in ſo many places as his Supper is adminiſtred in, and alſo that he willeth it at the ſame time to be imperceptible by any humane Senſes in all thoſe places ; for it is apparent from hence, that it was not at all times imperceptible; it might at this time have been ſeen, ad not the Diſciples Eyes been held, that they couid not know him.
17 And he ſaid unto them, What manner of commu- nications are theſe that ye have one to another, as ye
walk, and are ſad ?
Not that he, from whom the ſecrets of no Hearts are hidden, did not know what they were diſcourſing about, but that he had a mind to hear them repeated from them, that from their repetition of them, he might take the better advantage to inſtru them.
13 And the one of them, whoſe name was Cleopas, anſwering, {aid unto him, Art thou only a ſtranger in Je- rulalem, and haſt not known the things which are come to paſs there in theſe days ?
19 And he {aid unto them, What things ? And they ſaid unto him ; Concerning ſefus of Nazareth, * which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God, and all the people :
The things which had lately happened in Feruſulem were ſo ma- ny, and fo unuſual, that the Diſciples wonder that any one coming from Feruſa/em ſhould ask, What things? They therefore ask him, if he were a meer Stranger in Feruſalem, coming from ſome other Country, or from fome remoter parts of Fudea or Galilee ? Or, *f he were the only Man, who had been unconcerned in what was the com- mon Diſcourſe both of the Town and Country ? Still our Saviour draws out the Diſcourſe from them, by asking them, What things ? They tel! him concerning Feſus of Nazareth, a great Prophet, migh- ty both im Words and Deeds. In which Phraſe Stephen celebrated Miſes, Afts 9, 22, That is, one who did not only in an extraordi- nary manner reveal the Will of God unto Men, but alſo did many preat and mighty Works, and lived a moſt Holy and moſt Exempla- ry Life, and Converſation, ſo as that he was not only highly favou- red of God, but in great repute, and eſtimation alſo amongſt the People,
20 And how the chief prieſts and our rulers deliver- ed him to be condemned to death,, and have crucified him,
21 Bur we truſted that it had been he * which ſhould have redeemed [ſrael : And beſide all this, to day is the third day ſince theſe things were done.
tis from hence evident, that as yet they neither had .a true No- tion of Chriſt as God-man in one Perſon, nor yet of the Meſſiah, but till remain'd in an opinion of a Temporal Deliverance to. be eff-&- ed for the Jews by the Meſſizh when he ſhould come. The, words alſo ſhewed a great weakneſs in the Diſciples Faith as to Chriſt ; they {peek as if they were quite ont of Breath, and their Faith began to W, We were, ſay they, once of the mind, and maintained ſome Hope, that this Feſus of Nazareth had been he whom God had de- \2n&d for the Meſſizh, and now 7? is the third Day ſince theſe things were "2, This mention of the third Day, is a good Argument to prove "boſe were ſome old Diſciples of Chriſt, who had taken notice "romiſe or Prophecy, that he fhould Riſe again the third day, © :8. 33. They ought to _ had patience QI Night, and to L9H 2
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It 15 piati rom the Relation of theſe two Diſcintes, that they had whatſoever might conduce to a Moral Suaſinn. Chev MF A the Rove: latim of the Word, from the mouth of Chrif kimſe!f, They Þa4 Evidences from the Women, from the Apparition of Angels frc m ſome amon; ce:ntclves, that his Body was nor there. The Ange's ſaid le was Riſen. Why do they hetirate then ? vhy do es mes belicve ? Is the tault in the Perverſeneſs of their Wills ? Ard the no mind to believe, that the thing they had hoped, longed waited for, was true ? Certainly there f _
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